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This beachfront home in Jumby Bay offers resort-style living.

From a Greek island to Hamptons-style: The best beach houses around the world

Dreaming of a holiday home on the beach? If money’s no object, choose from an estate in a star-studded town or an entire private island.

  • Elizabeth Redman

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Heading into a purple patch

Shelling out and hopping to it.

Drifter will acquire NZ’s Haka Tourism Group and turn it into an Australia/New Zealand hybrid hotel network.

The Summer I ... moved to Melbourne without meaning to

Australia – a country known to me as a backdrop to hakas, Hadlee and Crocodile Dundee – suddenly became my home.

  • Mathew Dunckley
Beyond the garden at Tony Wright’s home near Portland.

The summer I ... partied in a house that slid into the sea

We knew we were coming to the end of something. Call it the king tide of our youth.

  • Tony Wright
Australian dreaming.

Dreaming of Oz: the holiday havens our foreign correspondents miss the most

Where do Aussies abroad pine for? Six journalists dive into their memory banks.

  • Matthew Knott, Bevan Shields, Chris Barrett, Eryk Bagshaw, Amelia Lester and Nick Bryant
In the 1970s, the slippery dip was a gleaming metal tower.

Suncream and slippery dips, the slippery slope of a Sydney summer

Ask anyone who slid down a slippery dip, summers were hotter when we were kids.

  • Richard Glover
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Predicting unpredictable storm events in teacups

Happy solstice, and the only episode you’ll never want another of.

Cape Tribulation; Cottesloe Beach; Franklin River; Lord Howe Island.

Good Weekend's Australian idylls: our special summer destinations

With international travel off the books for now, Good Weekend writers reflect on their favourite holidays of yesteryear.

  • Amanda Hooton, Melissa Fyfe, Tim Elliott, Jane Cadzow, Amelia Lester and Konrad Marshall
Perth’s Cottesloe Beach has been the scene of two fatal shark attacks since 2000.

On Western Australia's beaches, it pays to be alert and alarmed

Poisonous snakes. Deadly jellyfish. Sharks, obviously. Growing up in Western Australia, you keep your eyes peeled when beachside – but who’d have it any other way?

  • Amanda Hooton
"All I could think of when we landed was Tahiti, or an imagined vision of it – the prototypical Pacific island, with a peak at one end just undulating enough to entertain the eye."

'Her eyes sparkled when she talked about it': the magic of Lord Howe Island blessed me, too

An island of preposterous beauty casts its incredible spell as two friends walk and talk upon it, discovering along the way the perfect place to reconnect.

  • Amelia Lester

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